Abstract
Philip Stubbes (fl. 1583-1591), and English Puritan pamphleteer, in his The Anatomie of Abuses (1583), denounced the evil consequences of teaching dancing and music to children as follows:
If you would have your son soft, womanish, unclean, smooth-mouth, affected to bawdry, scurrility, filthy rimes, and unseemly talking; briefly if you would have him, as it were, transnatured into a woman or worse, and inclined to all kinds of whoredom and abomination, set him to dancing school and to learn music, and then you shall not fail of your purpose. And if you would have your daughter riggish, bawdry and unclean, and a filthy speaker, and suchlike, bring her up in music and dancing and my life for yours, you have won the goal.1
- Copyright © 1982 by the American Academy of Pediatrics
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